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Free Reading
Free Reading: Irregular Word Activities
This extensive site has links to games and activities that teach students to read 30 high-frequency irregular words. There are over 20 activities and games at the bottom of the site in additional to sequenced irregular word activities....
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All: Lesson: Abraham Lincoln
The students will be learning basic facts about Abraham Lincoln while also learning new high-frequency words.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sight Word Spelling Lesson Plan
In this lesson students explore with movement and creativity to make words come alive! Using sight word flashcards, students use their bodies to spell out simple sight words.
Michigan State University
Michigan State University: Intevention for Reading: Peer Tutoring in Sight Words
This is a lesson for peer tutoring of sight words including training, materials needed, procedures, and evaluation. The goal is to increase students' sight word vocabulary and, therefore, their reading comprehension.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Learning Vocabulary Down by the Bay
Contains plans for six lessons that teach students Dolch high-frequency sight words using songs and activities. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Be a Detective Is It a Letter or a Word?
In this instructional activity, learners will distinguish between words and letters. Students will look at each letter or word with an imitation magnifying glass to help them "see" letters and words more closely.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Apples Up on Top
Sight word acquisition is an important building block in the construction of a child's ability to read. Kindergarteners need practice to learn sight words. This lesson provides them with a fun way to learn new words.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Read, Write, and Say
In this lesson students improve their ability to spell sight words and decodable text. Students use a slideshow presentation to practice spelling frequently-used words. This lesson will improve students' writing skills.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Word Study With Henry and Mudge
Contains plans for six second or third grade lessons that use "Henry and Mudge: The First Book" by Cynthia Rylant to teach high-frequency spelling words, base words, the past tense marker -ed, phonemic patterns, predicting, and...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Kids in Motion: Sight Word Spelling
In this activity young scholars explore with movement and creativity to make words come alive! Using sight word flashcards, students use their bodies to spell out simple sight words. This activity primarily focuses on the use of...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Gingerbread Phonics
Through a shared reading of the familiar text, "The Gingerbread Man," learners can learn to sound out familiar words. You will find step-by-step instructions as well as supplemental materials.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Sight Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a vocabulary and recognition lesson.
Other
Free Phonics Lessons: Lesson 58: Digraphs: /Ph/ and /Gh/
Ready-to-print phonics worksheet on the digraphs "ph" and "gh." Includes information on the digraphs, word lists, sentences using words in context, and opportunities for students to write spelling words and original sentences.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Celebrating 100
This lesson engages young scholars in the read aloud book of Elinor J. Pinczes, One Hundred Hungry Ants, and in daily reinforcement of counting activities. Students will engage in a number of activities connected to the 100th day of school.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Spelling
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson the children will identify spelling sight words by listening to the word and voting for the correct spelling. It provides great practice and assessment for reading, spelling, and teaching.